> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:13:57 Daniel Braniss wrote: > > hi, > > FreeBSD-8 works great on these boards, but there are some > > gotchas, the boot and the serial: output works fine, but input > > is 'problematic'. the pxeboot serial handling is ok, the boot menu > > is ok, but booting off the CF (using boot0sio), the input 'screwy' > > at the selection of partition it is ignored, at the OK: prompt > > from the boot (i had no kernel in the slice), the input is usually > > doubled: > > sshooww instead of show > > which is probably similar to what is happening with boot0sio but it > > only echoes # (the current bell). > > > > Once the kernel is up, the serial works fine. > > > > any ideas? > > > > Which ALIX board exactly? There are some differences (even various BIOSes). > Any chance you have vga driver in kernel? TinyBIOS emulates VGA a bit, > redirects output to serial port. If at the beginning you are trying both VGA > and serial port, output is doubled. Similar behavior is observed on older > WRAP boards, too.
I have tried ALIX-1 and 2 here is an example: PC Engines ALIX.3 v0.99h 640 KB Base Memory 261120 KB Extended Memory Waiting for HDD ... 01F0 Master 848A SanDisk SDCFH2-002G Phys C/H/S 3970/16/63 Log C/H/S 992/64/63 1 FreeBSD 2 FreeBSD 3 FreeBSD 6 PXE Boot: 1 any key I hit, it echoes as # and is ignored. at this point the kernel is not yet involved, so having vga+kb support is not the reason, though I will try out the alix-3, which has vga support, and a different BIOS soon. thanks, danny _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"